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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2008.

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  • Paul Benedict, 70, American television actor (The Jeffersons).
  • James Bree, 85, British film and television actor, illness.
  • Betty Goodwin, 85, Canadian artist.
  • Tom Kirby, 61, Irish darts player, pancreatic cancer.
  • Siegfried Knappe, 91, German Wehrmacht artillery and General Staff officer, author (Soldat).
  • Mikel Laboa, 74, Spanish Basque singer and songwriter.
  • Raymond F. Lederer, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1977–1981), lung cancer.
  • Emanuel Rackman, 98, American Orthodox rabbi.
  • H. Sridhar, 50, Indian sound engineer, heart attack.
  • Dorothy Sterling, 95, American writer and historian.
  • Sir John Wall, 78, British jurist and blind rights campaigner.
  • Joseph B. Wirthlin, 91, American Mormon prelate, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, natural causes.

    • 2

  • Carlos María Abascal Carranza, 59, Mexican public official, Secretary of the Interior (2005–2006), cancer.
  • Kathleen Baskin-Ball, 50, American minister (United Methodist Church), cancer.
  • Frank Crean, 92, Australian politician, Treasurer (1972–1974), Deputy Prime Minister (1975), after short illness.
  • Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 81, American writer, filmmaker and scholar, after long illness.
  • Leïla Karam, 80, Lebanese actress, after long illness.
  • Margarita Karapanou, 62, Greek author, respiratory problems.
  • Pyotr Latyshev, 60, Russian politician, presidential envoy to Urals Federal District.
  • Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, 97, British aristocrat and politician.
  • Henry Molaison, 82, American amnesiac, subject of brain science study, respiratory failure.
  • Odetta, 77, American folk singer and human rights activist, heart disease.
  • Ted Rogers, 75, Canadian businessman, CEO of Rogers Communications and owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, heart failure.

    • 3

  • William Pierson, Jr., 97, American art historian.
  • Oliver Selfridge, 82, British-born American computer scientist, pioneer of artificial intelligence, injuries from a fall.
  • William Spoelhof, 98, American academic, President of Calvin College (1951–1976), complications from a fall.
  • Ignacio Uria Mendizabal, 71, Spanish businessman, shot.
  • Elmer Valentine, 85, American nightclub owner.
  • Derek Wadsworth, 69, British composer and jazz trombonist.
  • Alex Widmer, 52, Swiss executive, CEO of Julius Baer bank.
  • Robert Zajonc, 85, Polish-born American psychologist, pancreatic cancer.

    • 4

  • Forrest J. Ackerman, 92, American science fiction expert, heart failure.
  • Steve Bradley, 32, American wrestler.
  • Jan Kemp, 59, American academic, exposed bias in passing college football players, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
  • Party Arty, 29, American rapper.
  • Warren M. Robbins, 85, American art collector, complications from a fall.
  • Richard Van Allan, 73, British opera singer, lung cancer.

    • 5

  • A. Bernard Ackerman, 72, American dermatopathologist, heart failure.
  • Alexy II, 79, Estonian-born Russian primate of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1990, heart failure.
  • Jimmy Anderson, 55, American rodeo clown, heart disease.
  • George Brecht, 82, American artist (Fluxus), natural causes.
  • Martyn Crook, 52, Australian footballer and coach, heart attack.
  • Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, 80, Romanian politician, cancer.
  • Nina Foch, 84, Dutch-born American actress (Executive Suite), myelodysplasia.
  • Beverly Garland, 82, American actress (My Three Sons), after long illness.
  • Paris Herouni, 75, Armenian scientist and professor.
  • Sir Basil Kelly, 88, British politician and jurist, after short illness.
  • Rawson Macharia, 96, Kenyan perjurer against Jomo Kenyatta, traffic accident.
  • Jean-Pierre Nguema, 76, Gabonese politician, member of the Senate of Gabon.
  • Anca Parghel, 51, Romanian singer, ovarian cancer.
  • Richard Topus, 84, American World War II messenger pigeon trainer and business executive, kidney failure.
  • Dick Vertlieb, 78, American baseball and basketball executive.

    • 6

  • John Cumming, 78, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Scotland).
  • Larry Devlin, 86, American CIA agent, emphysema.
  • Catherine Hagel, 114, American supercentenarian, third oldest validated living person.
  • Sir Curtis Keeble, 86, British diplomat, Ambassador to the USSR (1978–1982).
  • Gérard Lauzier, 76, French cartoonist and film director, after long illness.
  • Elliot Manyika, 53, Zimbabwean politician, road accident.
  • Richard Marsland, 32, Australian radio host, apparent suicide.
  • Lloyd Ohlin, 90, American criminologist, complications of Shy–Drager syndrome.
  • Ivan Semedi, 87, Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Mukacheve.
  • Sunny von Bülow, 76, American heiress, cardiopulmonary arrest.

    • 7

  • Abul Ahsan, 71, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, cardiac arrest.
  • Marky Cielo, 20, Filipino Igorot actor, suspected acute pancreatitis.
  • Jimmy Gourley, 82, American jazz guitarist. (French)
  • Herbert Hutner, 99, American chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts (1982–1990).
  • George Kuzma, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys.
  • Georges Nguyen Van Loc, 75, French police officer, writer and actor. (French)
  • James H. Pomerene, 88, American electrical engineer.
  • Roger Sonnabend, 83, American hotelier.
  • John Ellis Williams, 84, British author.
  • Dennis Yost, 65, American singer (Classics IV), respiratory failure.
  • Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, 79, Pakistani journalist and philatelist, paralysis.

    • 8

  • Manzoor Hussain Atif, 81, Pakistani field hockey player and administrator, after long illness.
  • Frank K. Edmondson, 96, American astronomer.
  • Kerryn McCann, 41, Australian athlete, breast cancer.
  • Xavier Perrot, 76, Swiss auto racer. (German)
  • Oliver Postgate, 83, British animator (Bagpuss, Clangers).
  • Robert Prosky, 77, American actor (The Natural, Broadcast News, Hill Street Blues), complications from a heart procedure.
  • Bob Spiers, 63, British television director (Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers), after long illness.
  • William S. Stevens, 60, American lawyer, heart attack.
  • Hillary Waugh, 88, American mystery writer.

    • 9

  • Jonathan Bailey, 69, British Angelican prelate, Bishop of Derby (1995–2005) and Clerk of the Closet (1997–2005).
  • Ibrahim Dossey, 36, Ghanaian footballer, car accident.
  • James Fergason, 74, American inventor.
  • Yuri Glazkov, 69, Russian cosmonaut.
  • Dražan Jerković, 72, Croatian football player and manager, heart failure.
  • José María Larrauri Lafuente, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Vitoria.
  • Brenda Leipsic, 66, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
  • Howard Pack, 90, American businessman, shipping magnate, heart failure.
  • William Neff Patman, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative for Texas (1981–1985), cancer.
  • George Turman, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (1981–1989), natural causes.

    • 10

  • Henning Christiansen, 76, Danish composer.
  • Mildred Constantine, 95, American curator (Museum of Modern Art), heart failure.
  • Munawwar Hasan, 44, Indian politician, car accident.
  • Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet (The Monkey's Mask), breast cancer.
  • Didith Reyes, 60, Filipino singer, heart attack and rupture of the pancreas.
  • Chris Richardson, 28, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), natural causes.
  • Sal Yvars, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants), amyloidosis.

    • 11

  • Ali Alatas, 76, Indonesian politician, Foreign Minister (1988–1999), heart attack.
  • Maddie Blaustein, 48, American voice actress (Pokémon), after an illness.
  • Ron Carey, 72, American labor leader (Teamsters), lung cancer.
  • Robert Chandler, 80, American CBS executive, heart failure.
  • Elie Amsini Kiswaya, 80, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Sakania-Kipushi.
  • Bettie Page, 85, American pin-up model and actress, complications from a heart attack.
  • Robert Shepherd, 71, American academic lawyer.
  • Yeh Shih-tao, 83, Taiwanese writer, colorectal cancer.

    • 12

  • David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 96, British aristocrat and public servant.
  • Avery Dulles, 90, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal.
  • Max Elbin, 88, American golfer, president of the PGA (1965−1968), heart failure.
  • Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 85, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1976).
  • Sigitas Geda, 65, Lithuanian poet. (Lithuanian)
  • Van Johnson, 92, American actor (Battleground, The Caine Mutiny, Brigadoon, Batman), natural causes.
  • Emmanuel Kasonde, 72, Zambian economist and politician, Finance Minister (1967−1971).
  • Tassos Papadopoulos, 74, Cypriot politician, President (2003−2008), small cell lung carcinoma.
  • Maksym Pashayev, 20, Ukrainian footballer, car accident.
  • Amalia Solórzano, 97, Mexican First Lady (1934–1940), respiratory complications.
  • Robin Toner, 54, American journalist (The New York Times), colon cancer.

    • 13

  • Doris Totten Chase, 85, American painter and sculptor.
  • Sir David Clutterbuck, 95, British admiral.
  • John Drake, 49, New Zealand rugby union player.
  • Mario Alvarez Dugan, 77, Dominican journalist and newspaper editor, heart problems.
  • Otto Felix, 65, American actor, amyloidosis.
  • Vince Karalius, 76, British rugby league player, cancer.
  • Shan Lloyd, 55, British journalist, wife of actor Hugh Lloyd.
  • David Margolis, 78, American industrialist, cardiac arrest.
  • Maurice Meersman, 86, Belgian cyclist.
  • Kjartan Slettemark, 76, Norwegian political artist, heart failure. (Norwegian)
  • Kathy Staff, 80, British actress (Last of the Summer Wine), brain tumour.
  • Horst Tappert, 85, German actor (Derrick).

    • 14

  • Mike Bell, 37, American professional wrestler.
  • Hank Goldup, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • William Kaufmann, 90, American nuclear strategist, adviser to seven Defense Secretaries, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Carl Kotchian, 94, American aviation executive, president of Lockheed.
  • Gastón Parra Luzardo, 75, Venezuelan academic and banker, after long illness.
  • Candida Tobin, 82, British music educator.
  • Nick Willhite, 67, American baseball pitcher, cancer.

    • 15

  • Valentin Berlinsky, 83, Russian cellist, after long illness.
  • Mike Blum, 65, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Carlo Caracciolo, 83, Italian publisher (La Repubblica).
  • León Febres Cordero, 77, Ecuadorian president (1984–1988), complications from pulmonary emphysema.
  • Davey Graham, 68, British guitarist, lung cancer.
  • Wanda Koczeska, 71, Polish actress.
  • David Lieber, 83, Polish-born American biblical scholar, lung ailment.
  • John W. Powell, 89, Chinese-born American journalist tried for sedition, complications from pneumonia.
  • Gian Franco Romagnoli, 82, Italian chef, author, television personality.
  • Clyde Sproat, 78, American musician.
  • Anne-Catharina Vestly, 88, Norwegian children's writer and actress.
  • John Webster, 95, Australian activist.
  • Jay E. Welch, 83, American musician, founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus.

    • 16

  • Peg Batty, 88, New Zealand cricketer.
  • Sam Bottoms, 53, American actor (Apocalypse Now, The Outlaw Josie Wales), glioblastoma multiforme.
  • Richard Coleman, 78, British actor.
  • George Constantinou, 75, Cypriot-born Papua New Guinean businessman, aggravated assault during carjacking.
  • Julius Fast, 89, American writer.
  • Harold Gramatges, 90, Cuban composer and pianist.
  • Joe Krol, 89, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts).
  • John E. Sprizzo, 73, American jurist, organ failure.
  • Zlatko Šugman, 76, Slovenian actor, illness.

    • 17

  • Turgun Alimatov, 85, Uzbek musician.
  • Ismet Bajramović, 42, Bosnian reputed organized crime figure and wartime commander, suicide by gunshot.
  • Sammy Baugh, 94, American football player (Washington Redskins) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
  • Freddy Breck, 66, German schlager singer, cancer. (German)
  • Jennifer Gale, 47, American transgender politician, cardiac arrest.
  • Ved Prakash Goyal, 82, Indian politician, brain tumor.
  • Gregoire, 66, Congolese African-born primate, oldest known chimpanzee.
  • Justin Levens, 28, American mixed martial art fighter, possible suicide by gunshot.
  • Luis Félix López, 76, Ecuadorian writer and politician, Secretary of Government, stabbed. (Spanish)
  • Willoughby Sharp, 72, American artist, art dealer, curator and impresario, throat cancer.
  • Dave Smith, 53, American baseball pitcher (Houston Astros), heart attack.
  • Feliciano Vierra Tavares, 88, American musician and singer, father of the Tavares Brothers, prostate cancer.
  • Henry Ashby Turner, 76, American historian, melanoma.
  • Nina Varlamova, 54, Russian politician, mayor of Kandalaksha, stabbed.

    • 18

  • Majel Barrett, 76, American actress (Star Trek), widow of science fiction writer Gene Roddenberry, leukemia.
  • Peter Malam Brothers, 91, British Royal Air Force pilot, Battle of Britain ace.
  • Pete Case, 67, American football player (New York Giants), after long illness.
  • John Costelloe, 47, American actor (The Sopranos, Kazaam, Die Hard 2), suicide by gunshot.
  • Jack Douglas, 81, British comedy actor (Carry On films), pneumonia.
  • W. Mark Felt, 95, American public official, Deputy Director of the FBI, "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal, heart failure.
  • Hannah Frank, 100, British sculptor.
  • Nahla Hussain al-Shaly, 37, Iraqi women's rights activist, shot and decapitated.
  • Robert Jonquet, 83, French footballer, after long illness.
  • Ian MacMillan, 67, American author.
  • Conor Cruise O'Brien, 91, Irish politician, writer and academic.
  • Ivan Rabuzin, 87, Croatian painter.
  • Harold Snyder, 86, American pharmaceuticals magnate, pioneer of generic drugs, respiratory failure.
  • Paul Weyrich, 66, American conservative activist, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation think tank, diabetes.

    • 19

  • James Bevel, 72, American civil rights leader, pancreatic cancer.
  • Page Cavanaugh, 86, American jazz pianist and singer, kidney failure.
  • Carol Chomsky, 78, American linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky, cancer.
  • Michael Connell, 45, American political strategist, plane crash.
  • Kenny Cox, 68, American jazz musician, lung cancer.
  • Sir Bernard Crick, 79, British political theorist, cancer.
  • Dock Ellis, 63, American baseball player, cirrhosis.
  • Neal Kenyon, 79, American theater director.
  • Joe L. Kincheloe, 58, American professor, heart attack.
  • Matt Kofler, 49, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts).
  • Derek Stanford, 90, British poet and critic.
  • Sam Tingle, 87, Zimbabwean racing driver.

    • 20

  • Samuele Bacchiocchi, 70, Italian theologian, liver cancer.
  • Joseph Conombo, 91, Burkinabé politician, Prime Minister of Upper Volta (1978–1980). (French)
  • Jack Kuehler, 76, American electrical engineer, president of I.B.M. (1989–1993), Parkinson's disease.
  • Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso, 83, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the diocese of Santiago de Chile.
  • Olga Lepeshinskaya, 92, Ukrainian-born Russian ballerina.
  • Joel Mandelstam, 89, British biochemist and microbiologist.
  • Adrian Mitchell, 76, British poet, heart attack.
  • Robert Mulligan, 83, American film director (To Kill a Mockingbird), heart disease.
  • Albin Planinc, 64, Slovenian chess grandmaster, after long illness.
  • Dorothy Sarnoff, 94, American opera singer, actress and self-help consultant.
  • Igor Troubetzkoy, 96, Russian auto racer.

    • 21

  • Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, 92, British noble.
  • James Fulton, 58, Canadian politician, MP for Skeena (1979–1993), colon cancer.
  • Teddy Gueritz, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral.
  • Christopher Hibbert, 84, British historian.
  • Ron Hornaday, Sr., 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.
  • Al Meyerhoff, 61, American lawyer, complications from leukemia.
  • Carlos Manuel Santiago, 82, Puerto Rican baseball player (Negro Leagues), heart failure.
  • Dale Wasserman, 94, American playwright (Man of La Mancha), heart failure.
  • Maurice Zilber, 88, Egyptian horse trainer, cancer.

    • 22

  • Anand Babla, 54, Fijian politician, MP (1992–2006), after long illness.
  • Coy Bacon, 66, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins).
  • Lansana Conté, 74, Guinean politician, President of Guinea since 1984, after long illness.
  • Norm Cook, 53, American basketball player (Kansas Jayhawks, Boston Celtics).
  • Ossie Dawson, 89, South African cricketer.
  • James Lebon, 49, British music video director and hairdresser.
  • Jani Lehtonen, 40, Finnish pole vaulter. (Finnish)
  • Robert J. Marshall, 90, American minister, president of the Lutheran Church in America (1968–1978), heart failure.
  • Hugh Myers, 78, American chess player and author.
  • Alfred Shaheen, 86, American textile manufacturer, popularized the Hawaiian shirt, complications of diabetes.
  • Guy Warren, 85, Ghanaian jazz musician, illness.

    • 23

  • Clint Ballard, Jr., 77, American songwriter ("You're No Good").
  • Manuel Benitez, 39, American child actor and FBI fugitive, shot.
  • Narciso Bernardo, 71, Filipino basketball player, cardiac arrest.
  • Thomas Congdon, 77, American editor, Parkinson's disease and heart failure.
  • Frank Krog, 54, Norwegian actor. (Norwegian)
  • Mitsugu Saotome, 82, Japanese author, stomach cancer.
  • Héctor Thomas, 70, Venezuelan Olympic decathlete, cancer.
  • Thierry de la Villehuchet, 65, French money manager and businessman, apparent suicide.
  • Eric Wilson, 96, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
  • Arnold Jacob Wolf, 84, American rabbi, heart attack.

    • 24

  • Ian Ballinger, 83, New Zealand sport shooter, 1968 Olympic medallist.
  • Ray Deakin, 49, British footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Burnley), brain cancer.
  • Stanley Eveling, 83, British playwright.
  • Gordon Fairweather, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Royal, New Brunswick (1962–1977).
  • Samuel P. Huntington, 81, American political scientist, heart failure and complications of diabetes.
  • Ai Iijima, 36, Japanese media personality and AIDS activist, former adult film actress, pneumonia.
  • Harold Pinter, 78, British playwright (The Homecoming), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2005), throat cancer.
  • Rik Renders, 86, Belgian cyclist.
  • Alf Robertson, 67, Swedish singer and composer. (Swedish)
  • Ralph Harris, 87, British journalist, respiratory failure.

    • 25

  • Edd Cartier, 94, American illustrator (The Shadow).
  • Alvah Chapman, Jr., 87, American publisher and philanthropist, pneumonia.
  • Justin Eilers, 30, American mixed martial artist, shot.
  • Olívio Aurélio Fazza, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu.
  • Leo Frankowski, 65, American science fiction author.
  • William Glendon, 89, American attorney.
  • Eartha Kitt, 81, American singer and actress (Batman, The Emperor's New Groove), colon cancer.
  • Ann Savage, 87, American actress (Detour), complications from stroke.
  • Robert Ward, 70, American blues singer and guitarist.
  • Colin White, 57, British naval historian, cancer.

    • 26

  • Israel Horowitz, 92, American record producer.
  • Gösta Krantz, 83, Swedish actor. (Swedish)
  • Mikhail Krichevsky, 111, Ukrainian supercentenarian.
  • Alan W. Lear, 55, Scottish writer.
  • George Miller, 69, British footballer and manager (Falkirk FC, Wolverhampton Wanderers), cancer.
  • Sir Kenneth Stoddart, 94, British Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside (1979–1989).
  • Dick Voris, 86, American football player and coach.
  • J. Lamar Worzel, 89, American oceanographer, heart attack.
  • Wyvetter H. Younge, 78, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives since 1975, surgical complications.

    • 27

  • Arild Andresen, 80, Norwegian footballer and ice hockey player (Vålerenga). (Norwegian)
  • Rodrigo Arango Velásquez, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Diocese of Buga.
  • Delaney Bramlett, 69, American songwriter and record producer, complications from gallbladder surgery.
  • Sailor Brown, 93, British footballer and manager.
  • Roque Cordero, 91, Panamanian-born American composer.
  • John Fenton, 87, British Anglican priest and New Testament scholar.
  • Robert Graham, 70, Mexican-born American sculptor, husband of actress Anjelica Huston, after long illness.
  • Ian Harland, 76, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1989–2000), after long illness.
  • Lars Hollmer, 60, Swedish musician. (Swedish)
  • Tuanku Ja'afar, 86, Malaysian King (1994–1999), Great Ruler of Negeri Sembilan since 1967.
  • Patricia Kneale, 83, British actress.
  • Iain MacLean, 55, Australian politician, Western Australian MLC for North Metropolitan (1994–1996) and MLA for Wanneroo (1996–2001).
  • Christine Maggiore, 51, American AIDS denialist.
  • Sahu Mewalal, 82, Indian footballer, natural causes.
  • Alfred Pfaff, 82, German footballer, 1954 FIFA World Cup winner. (German)

    • 28

  • Quentin C. Aanenson, 87, American fighter pilot, cancer.
  • A. O. L. Atkin, 83, American mathematician, complications from a fall.
  • Willie Clark, 90, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, St Johnstone).
  • Vincent Ford, 68, Jamaican reggae songwriter ("No Woman, No Cry"), complications from diabetes.
  • Donald Gleason, 88, American physician, creator of prostate cancer test, heart attack.
  • Sir Michael Levey, 81, British art historian, Director of the National Gallery (1973–1986).
  • Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, 92, American architect and industrial designer, created the United Nations logo, prostate cancer.
  • Haralamb Zincă, 85, Romanian writer, Alzheimer's disease. (Romanian)

    • 29

  • Manjit Bawa, 67, Indian painter, after long illness.
  • William Ellis Green, 85, Australian cartoonist.
  • Jim Horne, 91, American model, heart failure.
  • Freddie Hubbard, 70, American jazz trumpeter, complications from a heart attack.
  • Victor H. Krulak, 95, American Marine Corps officer.
  • Vladislav Lalicki, 73, Serbian production designer. (Serbian)
  • Ted Lapidus, 79, French fashion designer, respiratory failure.
  • Daniel Nagrin, 91, American choreographer and dancer.
  • Alan Sargeson, 78, Australian chemist.
  • Harlington Wood Jr., 88, American lawyer.

    • 30

  • Roy Boehm, 84, American Navy SEAL commander.
  • Stewart Cleveland Cureton, 78, American pastor, President of the National Baptist Convention (1999).
  • Richard Genelle, 47, American actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Zeo), heart attack.
  • Bernie Hamilton, 80, American actor (Starsky and Hutch), cardiac arrest.
  • Paul Hofmann, 96, Austrian writer, informant against the Nazis.
  • Peter Karmel, 86, Australian economist.
  • Roy Saari, 63, American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (1964).

    • 31

  • Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player, after long illness.
  • Kazbek Pagiyev, 49, Russian politician, mayor of Vladikavkaz, shot.
  • Brad Sullivan, 77, American actor (Slap Shot), liver cancer.
  • Vic Washington, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
  • Donald E. Westlake, 75, American mystery writer, heart attack.

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